Name: Ghost Month
ISBN: 9781616953263

Ed Lin

Shocked to learn that his high-school ex has been murdered, food-stand worker Jing-nan explores inconsistencies in the story with former classmates and the young woman's bereaved parents only to make a shocking discovery. By the author of the Robert Chow series.

Ghost Month

Nadine 

Since I was in Taipei last month and I like to read books about the places I've been, this was the choice. It's a fun read (listen) with a lot of background information on the culture and society of Taiwan and Taipei and the peoples that make it up.

S. R. Spencer

Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night market named after a Joy Division album, and also the location for a big-hearted new mystery set in the often undocumented Taiwan. August is Ghost Month in Taiwan--a time to pay respects to the dead and avoid unlucky omens. Jing-nan, who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, isn't superstitious, but this August will haunt him. He learns that his high school sweetheart has been murdered--found scantily clad near a highway where she was selling betel nuts. "Betel nut beauties" are typically women in desperate circumstances, but Julia Huang was high school valedictorian, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her, she was far away, happily enrolled in NYU's honor program. The facts don't add up. Julia's parents don't think so, either, but the police seem to have closed the case without asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some investigating, but nothing can prepare him for what he is about to learn, or how it will change his life.

Ghost Month

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